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Kanga sustainable design portable room kits

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Kanga Room Systems Offers Tiny, Portable Eco-Friendly Kit Buildings | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building
Andrew Michler INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Green Architect & Cradle to Cradle Founder William McDonough TweetShare on TumblrEmail INHABITAT: What inspired you to write ‘Cradle to Cradle‘ (the book) and launch the Cradle to Cradle system? William McDonough: From an early age, I was fascinated by differing attitudes towards resources. Growing up in Japan and Hong Kong, I was given my first look at complete material cycles, where waste becomes […] READ MORE >, inhabitat.com

Texas-based Kanga Room Sys­tems builds pre­fab­ri­cat­ed aux­il­iary units for your home or busi­ness. Whether you’re look­ing for a stu­dio, office, extra liv­ing space, or an extra room, these basic …

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Eco cabin on stilts

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Olson Kundig Architects’ Prefab Sol Duc Cabin Rests Lightly on Four Stilts | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building
Andrew Michler INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Green Architect & Cradle to Cradle Founder William McDonough TweetShare on TumblrEmail INHABITAT: What inspired you to write ‘Cradle to Cradle‘ (the book) and launch the Cradle to Cradle system? William McDonough: From an early age, I was fascinated by differing attitudes towards resources. Growing up in Japan and Hong Kong, I was given my first look at complete material cycles, where waste becomes […] READ MORE >, inhabitat.com

The Sol Duc Cabin is the lat­est project to come from the office of Inhab­i­tat favorite, Olson Kundig Archi­tects. Locat­ed in the Olympic Penin­su­la, Wash­ing­ton, this small retreat is per­fect fo …

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Igloo Made From 300 Refrigerators

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Igloo Made From 300 Refrigerators Springs Up in Germany | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building
Andrew Michler INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Green Architect & Cradle to Cradle Founder William McDonough INHABITAT: What inspired you to write ‘Cradle to Cradle‘ (the book) and launch the Cradle to Cradle system? William McDonough: From an early age, I was fascinated by differing attitudes towards resources. Growing up in Japan and Hong Kong, I was given my first look at complete material cycles, where waste becomes food, and resources […] READ MORE >, inhabitat.com

Berlin-based artist Ralf Schmer­berg has con­struct­ed an awe-inspiring igloo made almost entire­ly of old refrig­er­a­tors in the cen­ter of Ham­burg, Ger­many. What appears as a Dada-esque con­struc­tion filled with absurd lit­tle vignettes is…

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Peter McFarlane Transforms Old Circuit Boards into Gorgeous, Poignant Fossil Art

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Peter McFarlane Transforms Old Circuit Boards into Gorgeous, Poignant Fossil Art | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building
Andrew Michler INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Green Architect & Cradle to Cradle Founder William McDonough INHABITAT: What inspired you to write ‘Cradle to Cradle‘ (the book) and launch the Cradle to Cradle system? William McDonough: From an early age, I was fascinated by differing attitudes towards resources. Growing up in Japan and Hong Kong, I was given my first look at complete material cycles, where waste becomes food, and resources […] READ MORE >, inhabitat.com

Peter McFar­lane’s mixed media sculp­tures may look like fos­sils, but the detailed instal­la­tions are real­ly reworked cir­cuit boards! The artist focus­es on trans­form­ing trash into fine art, believ­ing that waste is just “a lack of…

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Awesome Oru Origami Kayak

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Awesome Oru Origami Kayak Folds Into its Own Compact Carrying Case | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building
Andrew Michler INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Green Architect & Cradle to Cradle Founder William McDonough INHABITAT: What inspired you to write ‘Cradle to Cradle‘ (the book) and launch the Cradle to Cradle system? William McDonough: From an early age, I was fascinated by differing attitudes towards resources. Growing up in Japan and Hong Kong, I was given my first look at complete material cycles, where waste becomes food, and resources […] READ MORE >, inhabitat.com

The days of hav­ing to strap your kayak to the roof of your car are over thanks to the Oru – an Origa­mi Kayak that folds into a com­pact car­ry­ing case with space for life vests, pad­dles, and acces­sories. Designed by Anton Willis, The clever…

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Tiny House Arc Prefab Home is Now Available for Order

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Bellomo Architects’ Tiny House Arc Prefab Home is Now Available for Order | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building

Andrew Michler INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Green Architect & Cradle to Cradle Founder William McDonough INHABITAT: What inspired you to write ‘Cradle to Cradle‘ (the book) and launch the Cradle to Cradle system? William McDonough: From an early age, I was fascinated by differing attitudes towards resources. Growing up in Japan and Hong Kong, I was given my first look at complete material cycles, where waste becomes food, and resources […] READ MORE >, inhabitat.com

Here at Inhab­i­tat we love pre­fab house designs, and we like it even bet­ter when they actu­al­ly get built! That’s why we are very excit­ed to report that Bel­lomo Archi­tects’ mod­u­lar House Arc, which was just a pro­to­type before, is now…

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The Stealth Bomber: An Electric Bike Even The Dark Knight Would Love

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The Stealth Bomber: An Electric Bike Even The Dark Knight Would Love | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building

Andrew Michler INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Green Architect & Cradle to Cradle Founder William McDonough INHABITAT: What inspired you to write ‘Cradle to Cradle‘ (the book) and launch the Cradle to Cradle system? William McDonough: From an early age, I was fascinated by differing attitudes towards resources. Growing up in Japan and Hong Kong, I was given my first look at complete material cycles, where waste becomes food, and resources […] READ MORE >, inhabitat.com

So Bruce Wayne didn’t get to real­ize his dream of sup­ply­ing Gotham with end­less amounts of clean ener­gy. Maybe he should have start­ed small­er in his efforts to go green, like swap­ping out some of those gas guz­zling vehi­cles for less…

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7 Cozy Tipis and Yurts That Make You Feel Right at Home

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English: William McDonough, architect, author ...
English: William McDonough, architect, author of Cradle to Cradle/ Remaking the Way We Make Things (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

7 Cozy Tipis and Yurts That Make You Feel Right at Home | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building

Andrew Michler INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Green Architect & Cradle to Cradle Founder William McDonough INHABITAT: What inspired you to write ‘Cradle to Cradle‘ (the book) and launch the Cradle to Cradle system? William McDonough: From an early age, I was fascinated by differing attitudes towards resources. Growing up in Japan and Hong Kong, I was given my first look at complete material cycles, where waste becomes food, and resources […] READ MORE >, inhabitat.com

Liv­ing more sim­ply in 2012 is def­i­nite­ly on our list of New Year’s res­o­lu­tions, and the Col­orado Yurt Com­pa­ny makes it easy with their cozy range of col­or­ful tipis and yurts. Tipis are tra­di­tion­al tri­an­gu­lar tents that were firs…

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In China More Than 30 Million People Live in Eco-Friendly Caves

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China's FIRST McDonald's
China’s FIRST McDonald’s (Photo credit: flickr.Marcus)

In China More Than 30 Million People Live in Eco-Friendly Caves | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building


Andrew Michler INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Green Architect & Cradle to Cradle Founder William McDonough INHABITAT: What inspired you to write ‘Cradle to Cradle‘ (the book) and launch the Cradle to Cradle system? William McDonough: From an early age, I was fascinated by differing attitudes towards resources. Growing up in Japan and Hong Kong, I was given my first look at complete material cycles, where waste becomes food, and resources […] READ MORE >, inhabitat.com

In China, call­ing some­one a cave­man shouldn’t be taken as an insult – in fact, Mao Zedong lived in a cave before becom­ing the coun­try’s leader. Today, many Chi­nese peo­ple still live in caves. And we aren’t talk­ing about just one or two…

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The Leaf House is an Energy-Efficient Tiny Home

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The Leaf House is an Energy-Efficient Tiny Home Built for the Cold | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building


Andrew Michler INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Green Architect & Cradle to Cradle Founder William McDonough INHABITAT: What inspired you to write ‘Cradle to Cradle‘ (the book) and launch the Cradle to Cradle system? William McDonough: From an early age, I was fascinated by differing attitudes towards resources. Growing up in Japan and Hong Kong, I was given my first look at complete material cycles, where waste becomes food, and resources […] READ MORE >, inhabitat.com

Mod­ernist, min­i­mal, and able to with­stand the bit­ing cold of the Yukon, Laird Her­bert’s Leaf House is built with ener­gy effi­cien­cy and con­ser­va­tion in mind. With just 215 square feet of func­tion­al liv­ing space, the house boas…

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